The tips begin at a different place in each module. The advice moves along with the stages of the course.

There is a particular genre of MCAT passage beginning with a paragraph or two of dense molecular biology language. Substance X is an inhibitor of protein Y, a threonine kinase deactivating protein Q, whose binding leads to degradation of transcription factor A, etc. The flow of information is meant to be faster than processing, and the amount of information is meant to strain working memory. Slow down and study it. Put it together. See it all simultaneously. This section will be the foundation for the rest of the passage. The research portion of the passage will unroll like a carpet. The questions will make much more sense because you took a little extra time here. You'll get the time back.

Module 5 Science Focus

Suggested Assignments

Science Focus

Study the conceptual materials in your book-set (TBR or Kaplan) within Fluid Mechanics, Harmonic Motion, and Waves. 

Perform the odd numbered (phase 1 ) practice items in your book-set for these topics.

Watch the videos for Module 5 - Fluid Mechanics and Waves.

Before moving on to the Integrated Course practice items, work on your physics fundamentals with the Concept and Question Cards.

Choose from the resources available within the Topic Pages to reinforce and supplement learning.

Preview the Organic Reaction Mechanisms, the science focus of module 6. 

Conceptual Integration

Read the Interdisciplinary Notes for Module 5.

Play Catch Blue.

Perform the MCAT Official Prep Online Flashcards at AAMC. 

Biology Cycle

Read Ch. 8 - Transcription and Ch. 9 - Translation in Lippincott - Cell & Molecular Biology

Continue Cell & Molecular Biology Cycle work in your MCAT bookset (TBR or Kaplan).

Psychology

Study the conceptual treatment of Learning in your MCAT book-set and complete the odd numbered problems.

Review the conceptual vocabulary for Learning using the illustrated conceptual primer on this site.

Extend practice using the Essential Concepts ANKI Deck to include the Learning cards. 

Integrated Course practice items:

CARS

Module 5 CARS Lesson Blind review.

Perform the first 7 passages (questions 1-43) from CARS Question Pack, Vol. 2. Give yourself 75 minutes to complete the passages. Before scoring them, perform a blind review!